Week 2: Learning by Experience

Hey yall this week was super awesome! 

On Sunday we got to hear an awesome talk from Chad Lewis, a former byu/nfl tight end. I didn't actually get a ton of spiritual stuff out of his talk because he just shared stories of his life but they were pretty interesting and entertaining haha. The main thing I learned from it was how much he loves the feeling of jumping over someone in a football game.

On Wednesday we had a new batch of missionaries come in, and they called my district to help host some of them. I had never done this before. When we host, we're supposed to meet a new missionary as they get dropped off, take them to their room to drop off luggage, and then to their classroom to immediately start learning and getting to know their teachers. I was pretty excited about it so I didn't think as much as i should have. I took elder martin him to his classroom first, then took his luggage and residence key to his room and dropped it off without him, and left. So his key was locked in his room. I realized after how bad i messed up but im sure he will be fine (: also i learned a lot from that experience so if i ever have to host again i have a higher chance of not messing up.

Home sweet home

A funny quote from this week: one of my norwegian teachers is from england and he is pretty patriotic and thinks he's superior to america. But I love him and he's hilarious and he's a good teacher so its ok. He plays soccer and this is something he said in class. "Norwegians are born with skis on their feet, and Englanders are born with soccer cleats on their feet. Americans are born with twinkies on their feet and 10 extra pounds".

So yeah i like all my teachers and I'm still doing well with the language. It's amazing how quickly you can learn a language. Its crazy to think that some of the missionaries in my class didn't know a speck of norsk 2 weeks ago and now everyone can at least bear their testimonies and make basic sentences. In class we're teaching fake investigators in Norwegian and that's going pretty well. The language is coming along super well for me and I love speaking norwegian. Eldste Lowther is struggling with it though. I like him as a person and a friend but he's not very motivated all the time. We've struggled with teaching because he can't really say much so i get stressed out cuz i feel like i have to do everything. Also we get sidetracked pretty easily as a companionship and we're not super good at preparing the lessons. We are improving slowly though, and we always pray that we can have help from the spirit in our preparation and our lessons.

Me and Eldste Lowther

I heard Kimball is applying to work at the mtc so that would be awesome if i could see him here. So far I've seen 3 people that I know: Tanner Allen, Tyler West, and Cambria. Its really cool to see them but at the same time it's kinda weird cuz we have to act a little differently being missionaries. Also it's kinda weird to see parts of my old life being mixed in with what i'm doing now. There are things i miss about home but I am so happy to be here and have a fresh start from everything. 

We went to the temple as a district. The provo temple is kinda funny looking haha but it was still really cool. I love everyone in my district and ive become good friends with most of them. I'm so happy to be here and i'm having an awesome time!

Vær så godt!

Eldste Spencer​​​​​​​​​​